Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-05-11

ss NevSdealerS and hers wishing an extra
number OF the paper that day should also for
ward their orders in advance, to avoid disap-
pointment.
The Post thinks that The STAR acts the part OF
an alarmist In printing the estimate OF n depart
ment official that under the new civil-servce rules
Seven-eighths of the old government employees Will
be in danger Of dismissal. In another column Of
THE STAR will be found extracts from the Balti-
more Sion, from which IL appears that prominent
Official, who claims a part OF the credit for the
adoption OF the new rules holds that there is any
quantity OF dead-woOd in the departments. TO wit,
persons appointed under the republican admins
tration simply a reward Tor party services, who
manage to keep up appearances, and thus avoid
formal objection: and that the deliberate purpose
OF the new rules Is to clear out this dead-uood
that h, these clerks appointed under a republican
administration who perform their duties so well
that no excuse is given 20 discharge them for in
efficiency.
1t further appears that Department official
who Is In position To know what he talks
about" says that under a strict enforcement OF
the new regulations At least seven-eighths OF the
old Government employees, '.whose appointments
were doubtless merely rewards for some political
service, will be dismissed. THE STAR would be
ashamed TO add a single unnecessary terror TO the
reasonable fears Of the employees OF this Govern
which they are kept by the desperate assaults of
spoilSmen and the ever feeDer resistance OF So
called civil service reformers is demoraizing and
outrageous The STAR Is not an alarmist: but
when II perceiveS the power given by the new
rules to manipulate the results OF these examina-
tons. by choice OF questions and OF weight to be
given in marking TO the different sub
lactS and by discretion as to deficiency
standing il comes to the conclusion that
no in
every case cause whom they please to be rejected;
and when cautious, conservative paper, like the
!Sul. publishes that prominent democratic Off
CialS, who helped make the rules or are ia posi-
ton 10 know, intimate that the purpose Is to
sweep from the departments those appointed un-
der former administrations who cannot be dis
charged for ineficiency perniclOus activity and
estimate tnat Seven-eighths OF the Old employees
viii be dismissed, some Importance Is reasonably
attached 10 the announcement OF intention.
II the clerks are frightened IL is not The
STAR that alarms them. And it is
hot thought that they will be reas-
sEred b. our cOtemporaryS statement that
this examination has been made so fair and so
far within the limits OF ordinary ability that pro-
test Is an admission OF fatal neficiency Possibly
our contemporary has SEEN In violation of the pro
hioition OF the new rules. the first examination
paper under them; but there will be more than
million other diSmissal-working examinations. at
the questions in which IL Is impossible that our
eotemporary can have had peep There is
nothing In the rules which compels the examina-
ton TO be fair or easy: and much that tends to
make them ridiculous, when employed as tests for
dismissal, instead OF as tests for promotion
II has been noted that not infrequently the man
who makes the greatest financial strokes IS he who
reverSes the common order OF things-who stems
the current Instead of floating with IL Ike the
majority OF his felIow-men. Count Rumford.
George Peabody, JunIus Morgan, Sir Curtis Lamp
son. have all exemplied this fact in their careers
Instead OF following the crowd toward the setting
SUM- they faced about and carried their American
cleyerness and dash into the heart OF a eonserva-
tive market The newspapers are now full OF the
story OF another bold experiment In the same line
IL USED 70 De the fashion for the cultured east 10
visit the wild west when ft wanted to see the
wonders OF that region. Buffalo BIZ has demon
strated as coaclus1vely rs need be, that there Is
great profit In doing Just the opposite OF this and
conveying part OF the wonders of the west TO the
doors OF the inqUistive east The rcS!I. only con-
IrrnS the verdict Oi century Of Yankee enterprise
There IS some talk how OF American intercess;oD
In behalf OF the Mexican arTny officers who were
sentenced TIE other day - je shot for an outrage
upon International comfy. It IS very doubtful 20
say the least, whether such Interference would
have awho!esCne effect. These officers were tried
Il
They were fo';nd guilty by men who would natur-
ally D. disposed 10 make the best use OF every ex.
tenuating circumstance. Why Americans should
appeal 10 save the lives OF such men. who have
deliberately set example 70 their troops which
Is liable - result ia frequent violations OF the
frontier and serious diplomatic complications az.
terwart, does not appear IL the strict discfplin.
arians OF the Mexican army disposed 10 give SC
practical warming TO wrnngdoers, why shan they
hot De- permitted the privilege
Tue socaliet Utah act relating 10 polygamy
bigany. adultery, and kindred crimes, ana uro.
Ntding severe penalties is unquestionably In
part al least, In force In Washington as a .nlocs
over which tue United States have excIusiy We
jurisdiction Tie Laws Is good and needed one
here. The District may profit by the crumbs which
fail 70 IL, un!ntentiOnaly, from the Legislative
Table. II any gay and festive members among
the enacting legislators tumble into their own
put, they must scramble out again as best they
can, without counting on much sympathy.
IL may strike some critics as odd that Boston,
entertainment Of Queen kapiolani should include
amOrning repas; 1t the Parker House I'm the so
ciety Of Oliver Wendell Holmes. But it should b,
remembered that royd. etiquette requires a travel
ling pOtrntate u make call OF ceremony at every
curt within whose jurisdiction he passes; and Il
WIS emlnently nttIa, that. having paid her N,
sp-cts In due form 10 the President of the CnItet
States. the Queen OF Hawaii should Visit the typ.
Cal Yankee breakfast table and be presented TO IFS
s'autOcTaI'
The emigration statistics OF Ireland show thai
nearly twelve thousand persons LEFT that island
during the single month of April. AS Ireland has
at best. population considerably less than thai
OF the State OF New New York. such drain as Is
DOW going On could lot be kept up very long with
Out reducing her 70 a practically desert condition
The latest style IN bankruptcy is TO run YOU
business on q suicidal basis. wreck yourself ans